The Star: September 06, 2018

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Fire rages, homes at risk
Show week
shapes up
THE BIGGEST week of
Christchurch’s spring calendar
is close.
Tickets to New Zealand Cup
and Show Week went on sale this
week.
Celebrated as the South
Island’s premier spring festival,
this year’s week-long celebration
will be a showcase of racing,
fashion, excitement and glamour
alongside cutting-edge agricultural
innovation, fun-filled family
entertainment and tantalising
regional food and beverage
offerings.
Running from November
10 to 17, the annual event will
bring together Addington
Raceway’s Christchurch Casino
New Zealand Trotting Cup
Day, the New Zealand Cup
meeting at Riccarton Park and
the New Zealand Agricultural
Show, in collaboration with
city promotions agency
ChristchurchNZ.
Highlights will be a spring garden
experience at Riccarton Park
and fashion and entertainment at
Addington Raceway.
Four lucky guests will be flown
to Addington by Richie McCaw
as part of the raceway’s “arrive in
style with Richie” promotion.
Farmers told to secure cattle
• By Emily O’Connell
FARMERS ARE being reminded
to check their fences after
another car v cow incident.
The latest reported incident
happened on Hororata
Dunsandel Rd last week. The
motorist was not hurt but the
cow was killed.
North Canterbury Federated
Farmers dairy chairman Michael
Woodward said there are a
number of reasons why cattle
were ending up on roads.
“Potentially it’s basic security
hasn’t been followed . . . there
could also be people coming
onto properties who aren’t
supposed to be there that then
leave gates open,” he said.
The crashes are a “good
reminder” to farmers to check
their boundaries.
“With mycoplasma bovis in
the district the need to run a
secondary boundary fence isn’t
a bad thing, especially if it’s at
a gateway then that provides
a double level of security,” Mr
Woodward said.
Rolleston woman Carissa
Maitland who hit a cow last
month on Lincoln Rolleston
Rd said she was lucky she was
driving slowly when the crash
DANGER: Former Selwyn Mayor Bill Woods hit a cow in
his Mercedes-Benz, one of several accidents which has
prompted calls for farmers to check their fences.
happened.
The incident was “pretty
terrifying.”
She was driving home from
the Crusaders Super Rugby final
against the Lions on August 4
when her she collided with the
cow about 11pm.
Mrs Maitland was travelling
at 30km/h through road works
on the 100km/h road when the
cow “came straight out in front”
of her.
“I didn’t see it at all and so, I
didn’t even brake and it basically
kind of sat on my bonnet and
rolled back onto my windscreen,”
Mrs Maitland said.
The vehicle sustained
significant damage to the bonnet
and roof and needed to be
replaced. Mrs Maitland and the
cow were uninjured.
Her collision is just one of
four accidents involving cattle
over the past two months in the
Selwyn District.
A 27-year-old suffered serious
injuries when she collided with a
cow in Burnham on July 19.
On July 12, former Selwyn
Mayor Bill Woods and his two
passengers were lucky to escape
serious injury after his Mercedes-
Benz, travelling at about
100km/h, collided with a cow.
In July, Senior Sergeant Pete
Stills said road accidents with
cows were a “good reason” for
motorists to keep their speed
down.
“Hit a horse or a cow at speed
and you’re in trouble because
all you do is take their legs out
and they come up the bonnet
through your windscreen often,”
he said.
Selwyn District Council senior
animal control officer Steve
Clarke is advising people driving
on rural roads to make sure they
are aware of potential hazards.
“If you do see farm animals on
the road please report it through
our 24-hour line – 347 2800,” he
said.
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